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Gah I am so happy to have this again. I’m making it the same way I did before, 3 short infusions in the gaiwan all poured into a mug. I convinced my boyfriend to get an electric kettle because his stove takes forever to heat water, and it even makes this easier. If I’m ready for another round, it’s boiling the water again before I even realize it.

I get notes of cream, butter, floral. But it’s more complex than that, there’s just something about it I can’t pinpoint but I just know it tastes so good that I want to do a happy tea dance after every sip.

Totally going to just steep this all day this way until it can do nothing more. And also give it a 100 because perfection.

I am so so so so glad this was brought back. I got the raspberry one, and I needed the blueberry one too! I even saved the blueberry danish I got last week just for this occasion! (And there is still another half in the freezer, and yes that one was also in the freezer, of course.)

Tastes just like it! I love how fluffy this tea is, especially with the big blueberries. Tastes like blueberry and that awesome creamy cheese filling on danishes. And there’s even the notes of baked goods!

And I accidentally forgot about the mug and now it’s cooled off. It’s still amazing this way, in fact I think it brings the creaminess out even more.

I wasn’t sure about this tea when it first came out. Thanksgiving and then usually Christmas & Easter with my family involves this but with I think cool whip in it too, and most of the time it might be strawberry jello instead.
I always have to go get a separate bowl for it because I can’t have it touch anything else.

But now that my grandma’s in a nursing home, there was none of this on Sunday, even though I think my mom considered just jello since she has Easter shaped molds. But my grandma usually made it. Seeing her wasn’t as horrible as I expected but I still cried at least a dozen times. She for the most part seemed like herself since my brother and I were there, but at one point she was telling me about an Armenian festival that happened a few days ago at the nursing home. People were getting drunk and she didn’t like that there was liquid on the floor.
I seriously HAD to laugh at that because every other person in there is in a wheelchair and napping in it in the hallway. She was just so sassy about so many things, like how we need to bring pizza next time and if not we can sneak her to the car to eat it.

Anyway, this tea does taste like the jello salad I know and love from her. It really tastes just like jello but without the weird texture. It has the lime flavor, and it tastes like the pineapple bits are in there too. It gets more of the marshmallow flavor as it cools off too, which is excellent. I’m going to have to make it iced once it’s back in the 80s.

Nostalgia in a cup probably doesn’t get better than this.

This time I made a proper latte and it is not very tasty.

It just doesn’t taste good. I’ve had to let it cool way off to taste anything other than black tea and what tastes like fake chocolate. I added sweetener and now I can actually taste the chilies finally. But it just doesn’t taste good. It’s the same reason I sometimes have problems with Read My Lips: the chocolate tastes so artificial and reminds me of chocolate flavored lip balm.

Oh well, since I’ve gotten more from both Bonnie and Krystaleyn, I will give it another try. I wonder if it might taste good as an iced latte.

I love this so muuuuuch every time I make it. I only have it iced, and I generally cold steep it. I couldn’t believe I didn’t have a lot of it left, but I forgot that I make so much of it iced!

I can see how people wouldn’t like this though. There’s a bit of almost a perfume-ish taste if you let it get too warm and it makes it taste pretty flat. I think sugar might help it a bit, but making sure it’s really cold helps a lot.

It smells SO much like real soda though. This is one of those times I have a bottle of Coke Zero sitting around and I would think I had actually put it in my glass and it somehow became cherry flavored.

I’ve had this tea before at a tea house north of here. I got this and Paris to drink during afternoon tea. So, again, I was excited to once again find the source of a tea I enjoyed drinking somewhere else.

This is good hot, but I have to imagine it is even better as an iced tea. When I smelled the dry leaf in the bag, I could just imagine having a big glass of this after having to be outside in July.

This is just as good as I remember. The flavors are good, nothing tastes artificial like you might expect with “blue” in the name (it always makes me think of blue raspberry). The taste is mostly mango, but with a nice sweetness added by the pineapple.

The green tea base is nice, it isn’t too strong, but you can still taste that there’s something here other than flavoring.

This is DEFINITELY worth the dollar an ounce I paid!

I have always been curious about this tea! I love the idea of ingredients tasting like something else entirely.

Brewed up, I get a coffee-chocolate smell. I don’t really like chamomile so this is promising.

I can taste chocolate, but I’m also really glad I can definitely taste the base teas! It’s not hot chocolate heavy on the chocolate flavor, but it’s there.

Thanks for the sample, Krystaleyn!

I went to Target yesterday when I got back home…only to find a severe lack of jelly beans on clearance. I ended up finding a bag of all red Starburst ones hidden behind baskets on an endcap, so all was well in the end, but I kind of wanted a bit more variety, you know? But cherry/strawberry/watermelon should be just fine.

I got home and added 30 of them to my tin of this tea. And now I am finally trying it out. It only has two jelly beans in it for right now, and next time I drink this, I’ll try 3 and maybe 4.

I also just got some borosilicate glass double walled cups, and this is the first time I’m trying them out with hot tea. I thought maybe it’d be impossible to hold them, but it’s easier to hold compared to a mug. They’re the Kiran glass cups on Teavana’s website. I bought them through Amazon so I could use a gift card hahaha.

More jellybeans definitely tastes like the way to go. It’s sweeter, which covers up the strange oatmealish taste I’d gotten on my last cup of this. It definitely made it more fruity tasting, too. It’s still a lot like Swampwater but a pretty pink instead.

If you don’t have many jellybeans, don’t worry. No reason to pay a premium for them: go out ASAP and get some more! It makes it a lot better, and as a bonus if you didn’t have that many to begin with, you have more tea to work with in the end!

This still has a banana runt taste! It’s probably just me. I steeped it for 2 minutes instead of forgetting about it this time, so it’s a lot smoother and I can actually rate it because it doesn’t have a bitter aftertaste.

Two minutes is probably a bit short, maybe I’d go 3 next time just to compare. It’s very pale (repeating this since it’s the reason I oversteeped it the first time) but very flavorful. It mostly tastes orange, but there’s a definite taste of juicy peach…and seriously I get that candy in the aftertaste. It’s sweet without being too sweet, and very fruity.

I will have to try it again iced, only this time I won’t oversteep it again.

I love caramel. A lot. I didn’t even think twice about whether or not matcha and caramel might be odd together until after I bought it.

One sniff of this matcha took away my fears that this would not work. This is awesome. I was feeling like an iced latte, but I think I added a bit too much coconut milk at first, because it tasted more like coconut matcha. But after stirring enough to get some ice to melt into it, it’s much better.

The caramel comes as more of an aftertaste to the matcha, which is perfect. And it tastes like there really is caramel in here! I am not much for sweetening tea, but the caramel definitely gives it a good bit of sweetness. For me, it’s good without being overpowering but some people might need a little more sugar.

This is really awesome. I got the “distinctive” flavoring so mine might be a bit stronger in flavor, but to me it’s perfect. If you’re a caramel diehard like me, you might want to pay for the stronger flavoring.

I am thinking this would be good in some kind of baked goods. I had an idea earlier when I first got my mail and I had a nap since then so of course I’ve forgotten it.

Yay I have samples from Fusion Tea Room! I am surprised to be the first one logging this. Since I am in Georgia I feel the need to get everything peach flavored. (Fun fact: There are 23592 peach related streets here. Once I was looking for a chocolate shop on Peachtree Road, but turned onto North Peachtree Road, and I had just come from Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, and eventually turned around on Peachtree-Dunwoody Road. Yep.)

Peaches do not really even appear on the ingredient list (probably just under flavoring), but the taste is still there. It’s more berry and peach than just peach. I had been expecting all peach, but the berry flavor is tasty too. I’m not sure what exactly I am tasting, but there are four berries listed in the ingredients and to me they have combined into one superberry flavor.

I am getting better at accepting hibiscus. It wasn’t too bad, and with a bit of sweetener it’s now hardly noticeable over the fruit flavors. If I can get the flavor of hibiscus, it’s the peach flavor that comes to the rescue of my tastebuds and all is well again.

This is pretty good, I should also mention that I had it iced. I don’t think I would try to drink this hot, because it is way too good cooled off and poured over ice instead.

This was in my Easter basket this morning! I was going to hold off on drinking this until I got home, but I just couldn’t resist, even after way too much food today.

This is SO GOOD I can’t believe I didn’t get it earlier. Neapolitan used to be my favorite ice cream. I used to avoid eating much of the chocolate ice cream. I’d have like 40% vanilla, 50% strawberry, and 10% chocolate. That great brick of ice cream in a cardboard box is not representative of chocolate ice cream I know now.

I taste the chocolate and the strawberry and a bit of the vanilla. It’s really creamy without anything added to it. I let my mom have a sip and she said she can really taste the honey flavor of honeybush. It does add the perfect sweetness to the flavors.

It really tastes like neapolitan melted into some tea. This is definitely up there in my favorites now for sure after just one cup.

My mom bought some of this and wanted me to show her how to make it, even though I gave her all sorts of info ages ago, and she still doesn’t make anything! So I thought I’d show her with this one because I wanted to try it out.

We ended up having it iced, and I think that made it even better. It smells so good both as dry leaf and steeped. It isn’t too spicy, so since I’m not big into chai I found it to be perfect. The peach flavor is good, and the flavor just works perfect.

I got this as a sample, and I’m not usually a fan of jasmine greens. I figured I’d at least try it.

Nothing stands out about it. It really does just taste like something very average. Though maybe after having other jasmine greens, this would never stand a chance by price or by taste.

It’s not horrible considering I was able to finish it and not dump it out due to tasting like liquid flowers, but it’s just kind of flat. The base green tea is hard to taste over the jasmine for me, and that’s just from 2 minute steep.

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I don’t know if I mistimed everything and maybe oversteeped a bit but blah, this is not as good as it was the first time I had it. It hardly has the caramel taste, or it’s just not working and it doesn’t taste good to combine sweet with roasty right now for my tastebuds.

I’m glad I didn’t buy a whole tin of this just based on that one try. I’ll probably give it a try again some other time.

This is all brand new to me, and I couldn’t resist not giving it a shot because of the name alone.

I’ve never had yerba mate before. Or guayusa. So this is all entirely new but today I really really need some sort of pick me up. I decided to go see my doctor but no of course I have to actually go to a psychiatrist for this and no of course they are not there at work past 4pm. I kind of need some sort of expert written letter to explain my whole lack of a) knowing I had a test today and b) not going to said test… soooo not helpful.

And so I am basically worn out because I don’t want to hear “it will be better” when I have to wait another freaking day and then probably some more. So, something that will prevent me from going to sleep right now it is without resorting to Red Bull.

Since I have no idea what these things taste like, I can kind of get an idea from the tea though. I get grassy and earthy. It’s got both roasted and green mate. Everything goes so well with the orange and lemon flavors. It smells like candy, but it doesn’t taste like it because it’s definitely earthy. The citrus helps reign it in though, because I think by itself this would be a bit much.

So I had no idea how to steep it and used 195* water and steeped for 3 1/2 minutes. I think it worked just fine. I’m sure boiling water is what it’s supposed to be but I’m pretty comfortable with these results.

I wonder if this would work iced?

I guess it skipped straight to summer here, second night in a row with a storm. This one is way worse though, for a while I was worried my power was going to have to go out with how often there was lightning. So I had to make tea before it was too late!

I forgot I had two samples from Teavivre I had yet to try, and I am feeling like a green so I grabbed this one. The leaf is so pretty, it’s very fluffy and a bit curly, but I am mostly entranced by the fluffiness.

This is really light, I used about 1 1/2 tsp for my cup, and it brews up lightly colored. It’s a bit fruity but mostly it tastes light and savory. I definitely see where people who compare it to broth are coming from.

It’s good, but not really something that piques my interest. I like the other more savory greens I’ve tried, but this one just is a bit too light for me.

I completely forgot about the teas I got at Argo after Christmas. Oops. Nothing really screams “this is for winter only!” about any of them so since I was in the mood for a green, I chose this over the herbal one I’ve yet to try.

And I see why. This is not for me. For some reason I really really cannot do almond flavor in anything but black tea. Something just doesn’t taste right to me in white/green teas. I’m getting it in this and I really don’t like it with the orange and cinnamon. Without that almond taste, this reminds me of a cookie.

If anyone wants this, let me know, because I don’t think I’ll even be able to finish this cup. And if you can do almond flavoring, this has to be a really excellent cup of tea. Boo, taste buds.

I have been really anxious lately and I think it all revolves around the fact that a couple weeks ago basically out of nowhere my grandma had to be moved into a nursing home and this weekend will be the first time I see her and it completely terrifies me. Nothing has really made me feel better but with my nose over a cup of Marco Polo I actually felt like I could breathe well for once between this and pollenmania. I have not been getting anything done like I should and I can’t bring myself to do it. So now I have a microeconomics test tomorrow and really no idea what it is on.

It’s not that it reminds me of anything, it just smells right. Malty and fruity, a bit like chocolate, a bit floral. I think the first time I had it I put in milk and sugar immediately but I think I may like it better without. It’s a bit astringent, but so creamy. And then there’s the berry taste, and the floral finish. It’s really relaxing right now, yet you have to keep on thinking about it because it’s so complex.

On an indifference curve, there would be no substitute for Marco Polo, and your budget line is just going to have to deal with the fact you actually need to have this tea. That should be good for tomorrow, right?

I was hoping this would be good because I love creme brulee but it doesn’t taste a thing like it. In fact, it tastes like peanut butter to me. I’m guessing I’m getting it from the green rooibos combined with the caramel, because when I even smell it, I sort of get it. It smells strongly of the green rooibos, with a bit of caramel.

I don’t get anything creamy, but on the plus side this is kind of a nice change from things being so powerfully flavored it loses the tea…just I don’t really like a rooibos by itself.

Thanks for sending me a sample, Krystaleyn! I’m gonna definitely have to try mixing the rest of it with Oh Canada.

I was just about to go outside and check my mail when the power flickered twice and there was a clap of thunder. The radar is blank by me. I guess I’m not going anywhere.

I got more of this from Emilie so I took what she sent me and cold steeped it overnight. Well…more than overnight because I completely forgot about it until 7pm. I thought it might be too strongly flavored to drink but it’s just fine.

I like it a lot better this way than steeping it hot and then pouring over ice. It tastes creamier and the flavor gets toned down a bit better. I think I will do that from now on, not sure how I’d really like it hot.

I’ve been wanting to try this, thank you so much Emilie for sending me enough to really experiment a bit with it before I commit to a pouch of my own.

I LOVED how it smelled the moment I opened my mailbox. It was a bit like tropical bubblegum through the envelope, and then I couldn’t resist it so I’m up late.
Again.

I always let honeybush teas steep as long as I can, so this probably went a good 10 minutes. Hot, I don’t like it. I was going to be sad because there are so many tasting notes raving about this tea, so I decided to let it cool a bit more then poured it into a glass with some coconut milk and a couple ice cubes.

Now this is muuuuuuch better! It’s mostly coconut to me over everything else, but the pineapple flavor adds a good fruity sweetness. I’m not really getting rum, but that’s okay with me because it’s good as it is.

Not my favorite though, but that’s more to do with how much other tea I have that I’d rather drink before I buy more at this point. Maybe someday!

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